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31 January 2013

16:00, 31 January 2013 (UTC)

... that Roupala montana, Richeria grandis (pictured) and Parinari campestris, all known by the common name bois bandé, are reputed to have aphrodisiac properties?
... that Khurshid, the last ispahbadh of Tabaristan, poisoned himself when he learned that his family had been captured by the Abbasids?
... that the hierarchical generalized linear model is a useful statistical model in fields ranging from semiconductor fabrication to marketing research?
... that Eddie Macon was the first African-American to play for the Chicago Bears?
... that dishes served at Fäviken include marrowbone extracted from a shin bone cut open with a two-man saw in the middle of the restaurant?
... that at the Battle of Lindley's Mill, militia general John Butler attempted in vain to rescue North Carolina Governor Thomas Burke, who had been captured by Loyalist militia leader David Fanning?
... that Nauru has the highest obesity rate in the world: 71.7% of its residents are obese and 94.5% are overweight?

08:00, 31 January 2013 (UTC)

... that Kentucky native Morton M. McCarver (pictured) helped found Burlington, Iowa, and Linnton, Oregon, before helping draft the California Constitution and founding Tacoma, Washington?
... that the 1999 constitution of Venezuela enabled the expansion of local government via the Local Public Planning Councils?
... that the Royal Navy destroyer HMS Wanderer sank five U-boats during World War II, more than any other ship of her class?
... that while still a member of the North Carolina General Assembly, Martha B. Alexander stood as a candidate for president of the Episcopal House of Deputies?
... that in Bach's chorale cantata Ich hab in Gottes Herz und Sinn, BWV 92, for Septuagesima, he created five different settings for five stanzas of the hymn by Paul Gerhardt?
... that the Israeli political party Eretz Hadasha ran in the January 2013 elections in Israel but did not receive enough votes to enter the Knesset?
... that Lord Amberley allowed his wife's sexual partner, Douglas Spalding, to keep chickens in their drawing room and library, which terrified their guests?

00:00, 31 January 2013 (UTC)

... that the Barcelona Metro 9000 Series (pictured) runs on rapid transit systems in three Spanish-speaking countries?
... that a release by the Japanese girl group Momoiro Clover Z was partly in Furbish, the native language of Furbies?
... that Canada's Miracle Child "captured the world with her smile," according to Stompin' Tom?
... that the Indian Journal of Medical Research, first edited by Sir Pardey Lukis, is celebrating its centenary this year?
... that South Dakota socialist Z. D. Scott moved to Biloxi in the late 1890s to establish what a newspaper column described as a "co-operative colony" and to "live on fish and oysters and dream dreams"?
... that over 20 heads of state have paid tribute to the Armenian Genocide victims?
... that "Do the Bartman", written by Michael Jackson and Bryan Loren, was never released as a single in the US yet it peaked at number 11 on Billboard's airplay chart?

30 January 2013

16:00, 30 January 2013 (UTC)

... that Speaker of the West Virginia House of Delegates Alexander W. Monroe (pictured) successfully protected a 27-mile (43 km)-long wagon train of General Robert E. Lee's forces retreating from the Battle of Gettysburg?
... that during the Byzantine civil war of 1341–47, Theodore Synadenos wanted to surrender Thessalonica to John Kantakouzenos, but was ousted by the radical Zealots faction?
... that House actor Hugh Laurie had his first feature film lead role in The Oranges, released in October 2012?
... that Christina Aguilera's song "Lotus Intro" was inspired by her passion for "chill-out" electronica music?
... that in the 1780s Livesey, Hargreaves and Company was the largest calico printer in Lancashire?
... that Central Powers offensive codenamed Operation Faustschlag forced the Soviet government to transfer its capital from Petrograd to Moscow?
... that Michael G. Santos became the first American prisoner to be released from a maximum security facility?

08:00, 30 January 2013 (UTC)

... that in 1866 a Neogothic style school building (pictured) was erected for the Kreuzschule in Dresden, which has educated members of the choir of the Kreuzkirche since 1300?
... that engineer James Dredge, Sr. was the father of James Dredge, Jr. who, because of paralysis, was unable to continue managing the journal, The Engineer?
... that for the film Rabindranath Tagore, Satyajit Ray did not use any of Tagore's poems as he believed that people who heard the English translations would not consider Tagore "a very great poet"?
... that Mexican journalist Misael Tamayo Hernández was abducted and assassinated, probably by lethal injection?
... that the vast majority of the 22 film producers active in the Dutch East Indies were ethnic Chinese men?
... that Colin Trevorrow was falsely rumored to be the director of the upcoming Star Wars Episode VII?
... that in 1979 only two students registered to join Ai Tong School, now one of the most popular schools in Singapore?

00:00, 30 January 2013 (UTC)

... that the Gorce Mountains (pictured) are home to the brown bear, black stork and fire salamander?
... that Escape from Tomorrow was covertly filmed on location at Disneyland and Walt Disney World without Disney's permission or knowledge, using iPhones to store scripts and schedules and record sound?
... that Norwegian football player Henning Hauger saw less activity after moving to Germany and was ultimately left out of his national team?
... that in 1914, a Gabardini monoplane set an Italian altitude record of 4,950 metres (16,240 ft)?
... that William Yarrell's History of British Birds was "outstanding for ... its author's unassuming charm"?
... that although Burnt Bridge Creek does not meet Washington Dept. of Ecology standards for fecal bacteria, temperature, pH, and oxygen levels, the lowermost part of the creek supports coho salmon?
... that during Takembeng protests in Cameroon, post-menopausal women strip naked in order to prevent police and military from breaking up the protests?

29 January 2013

16:00, 29 January 2013 (UTC)

... that Michael Winner (pictured) wanted to greet future visitors to Woodland House as a talking waxwork statue?
... that Hasan ibn Zayd, the founder of the Zaydid emirate of Tabaristan, was succeeded by his brother Muhammad, who lost it to the Samanids?
... that the listed buildings in Northwich, Cheshire, include three structures designed so that they could be lifted in the event of further subsidence in the town due to salt extraction?
... that the New York-based Russian Symphony Orchestra Society gave the first American performance of Igor Stravinsky's The Firebird?
... that basketball player Cookie Belcher set Big 12 Conference records for steals in a season and a career?
... the Roman temple from the second century at al-Masmiyah, Syria, has rare niches for statues in its cella?
... that Norwegian footballer Kai Risholt could not sleep for 22 days?

08:00, 29 January 2013 (UTC)

... that the Fifth Siege of Gibraltar came to a sudden end in March 1350 when King Alfonso XI of Castile (pictured) became the only monarch to die in the Black Death?
... that despite normally being grey, brown and white, one Texas antelope squirrel found in 1905 was tinted purple?
... that German art designer Erich Kettelhut was tasked with creating a life-size mechanical dragon for Fritz Lang's 1924 movie Die Nibelungen?
... that professional footballer Michael Ngoo was booked for revealing a T-shirt bearing the message "96 reasons 4 Justice"?
... that Jasuben Shilpi, the Indian sculpture artist, was known as "The Bronze woman of India"?
... that the modern-day Syrian village of Qarqur on the east bank of the Orontes was founded just west of Tell Qarqur, believed to be the site of the Battle of Qarqar?
... that the United States Navy planned to use Orioles and Meteors to shoot down enemy aircraft?

00:00, 29 January 2013 (UTC)

... that the Botik of Peter the Great (pictured) was considered to be the reason Peter the Great built the Russian Navy?
... that James Ferguson was so ugly that his own mother warned him against being mistaken for a rapist?
... that "Kanashimi yo Konnichi wa" was used not only as a theme for the anime series Maison Ikkoku, but also as an image song for Shiseido shampoo?
... that the fourth-century Roman temple at Tasil in southern Syria was dedicated either to emperor Constantine the Great or to Constantius II?
... that Percy White was a leading contributor to Britain's first nuclear bomb?
... that the Nauru Reed Warbler is found exclusively on the remote Pacific island of Nauru?
... that brushing your hair can cause fainting or seizures?

28 January 2013

16:00, 28 January 2013 (UTC)

... that the 4th-century Brescia Casket (pictured) has been called "among the most formidable and enduring enigmas in the study of early Christian art"?
... that Karl Hugo Strunz was the creator of the Nickel-Strunz classification?
... that when a French television channel approached Satyajit Ray for Pikoo (1980), he was told "you can place your camera at your window and shoot the house next door—we will accept that"?
... that Usmar Ismail's film Enam Djam di Jogja was censored because of its depiction of Dutch soldiers?
... that the video for The Cure's 1987 single "Why Can't I Be You?" featured Robert Smith dancing in a bear suit?
... that Sam Ficken once missed four field goals and an extra point in a game that Penn State lost by one point?
... that stings from Tamoya ohboya, named for the exclamation "oh boy", cause severe pain and skin damage?

08:00, 28 January 2013 (UTC)

... that the Romanesque church St. Peter (pictured) in Syburg, now a suburb of Dortmund, is surrounded by a graveyard with stones dating back to the ninth century?
... that Sheldon Kurland, who contributed to the "Nashville sound" as a session musician and arranger, trained as a classical musician at the Juilliard School?
... that Star Trek: Enterprise actor Anthony Montgomery thought it would be a good idea to feature his character's family, something which occurred in the following season episode "Horizon"?
... that Greece was stripped of the 2013 Mediterranean Games hosting rights due to its financial crisis?
... that Cherokee Indian Mayes McLain held college football's single-season scoring record for more than 60 years and engaged in professional wrestling as the "Masked Manager"?
... that Yuki Saito's 1985 debut single, Sotsugyō, was used as an image song for a line of instant ramen?
... that Moroccan military and religious leader Ali Amhaouch is said to have bequeathed his son a magical rifle cartridge in 1918?

00:00, 28 January 2013 (UTC)

... that Blaufränkisch (pictured) is known as Lemberger in Washington but winemakers there are having a difficult time marketing the wine because of consumers associating it with a smelly cheese?
... that Knut Schoch appeared as the tenor soloist on many volumes of Pieter Jan Leusink's complete recording of the Bach cantatas with the Holland Boys Choir, including cantatas BWV 1, 2, 3, ... 198?
... that the rare Grevillea shiressii is only found along two tributaries of the Hawkesbury River north of Sydney?
... that Wendell Gilliard had the Ku Klux Klan labeled a terrorist group while serving on the city council of Charleston, South Carolina?
... that Green's Lodge Battery was so successful during the Great Siege of Gibraltar that the British decided to construct what became Rock Gun Battery above it?
... that the first etymological dictionary of the Turkish language was written by Bedros Keresteciyan, an ethnic Armenian?
... that on the country album Jan Howard Sings Evil on Your Mind, artist Jan Howard sings "Evil on Your Mind"?

27 January 2013

16:00, 27 January 2013 (UTC)

... that Frank McCormick (pictured) won the National League's Most Valuable Player Award in 1940?
... that Burning Lights by Chris Tomlin debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200?
... that the listed buildings in Great Budworth, Cheshire, include a sundial, stocks, a lychgate, a guidepost, two wellhouses, and a telephone kiosk?
... that film director Lee Toland Krieger became "hooked" on filmmaking as a teenager when his neighbor, a film producer, brought him to a set?
... that signature dishes at the Australian restaurant Quay include the "Snow egg" and an eight-texture chocolate cake?
... that in January 2013 the cybercrime Virut botnet was partially taken down through the actions of the Polish domain registrar, NASK?
... that the Penthouse Club of the Streamline Hotel, where NASCAR was founded, is now a gay bar?

08:00, 27 January 2013 (UTC)

... that since being closed in 1973 for desegregation, Washington School (pictured) in Ossining, New York, has been used as offices and a church?
... that Ervin Marton, an internationally known Hungarian photographer based in Paris, was part of the French Resistance during World War II?
... that Huawei unveiled a 6.1-inch phablet smartphone at the 2013 Consumer Electronics Show?
... that many of Stefan Batory's captains in the Livonian War had served in Obrona Potoczna ("Current Defense"), which defended Polish-Lithuanian borders from Tatar raids in the sixteenth century?
... that recently deceased Frank Esposito was the longest serving mayor in the history of Norwalk, Connecticut?
... that it is unclear if individual specimens of coral Acropora cytherea were being damaged by infestations of furry coral crab in the Chagos Archipelago in 2010?
... that Adam Markovitz for Entertainment Weekly thought that the Maroon 5 song "Lucky Strike" was one of the best on their album Overexposed?

00:00, 27 January 2013 (UTC)

... that the Tokatlıyan Hotels (pictured) are considered one of the first European-style hotels to be built in Turkey?
... that future Hockey Hall of Famer Steamer Maxwell's disdain for professional sport caused him to quit playing in 1915 after learning fellow players were getting paid?
... that in 2013 the Bornean slow loris (Nycticebus menagensis) was split into three additional species: N. kayan, N. bancanus, and N. borneanus?
... that after the Nazis forced him to sweep the streets of Vienna during the Anschluss, the third Sadigura Rebbe fled to Tel Aviv and swept the streets there instead?
... that the keys of Grand Casemates Gates are a symbol of office of the Governor of Gibraltar?
... that when David Milch created the HBO television series, Deadwood, the first book he bought for research was by Black Hills historian Watson Parker?
... that although some hooch maids were known to service servicemen during the Vietnam War, they were also described as being "good Catholics who ... would never date an American soldier"?

26 January 2013

16:00, 26 January 2013 (UTC)

... that Noël Paymal Lerebours's Excursions Daguerriennes consisted of aquatints (pictured) made by hand from daguerreotype photographs?
... that the Taku people fish for sockeye salmon at Port Snettisham?
... that the medieval royal administrator Henry de Cornhill was responsible for assembling part of the fleet for King Richard I of England's efforts in the Third Crusade?
... that a cove in Alaska was named Murder Cove after two gold prospectors were murdered there in 1869 as revenge for killing the brother of a Kake resident?
... that the Lungi Lol confrontation was the only direct engagement between British forces and the Revolutionary United Front during British operations in Sierra Leone in 2000?
... that an ice spike is a rare phenomenon in nature but they can be grown in an ice cube tray in a domestic refrigerator using distilled water?
... that James Allen quit football to become a rapper but decided to return two weeks later?

08:00, 26 January 2013 (UTC)

... that Wiohstan sold five hides at Up Marden (church pictured) to Bishop Wulfhun to take his family on a journey to Rome?
... that basketball player Tim Winn set a St. Bonaventure record for steals in a season?
... that the ritual of lighting Makaravilakku atop the Indian summit of Ponnambalamedu is witnessed from Sabarimala by nearly half a million people annually?
... that The Hunter by Julia Leigh has been translated into nine languages?
... that the first television role for actor Tommy Lee Jones was as fictional adulterous murderer Dr. Mark Toland on the American soap opera One Life to Live?
... that Meenakshi Shirodkar stunned the traditional audience when she appeared in a swimsuit in the 1938 Marathi film Brahmachari?
... that Christian hip hop artist Sho Baraka attracted controversy when he used the word "nigga" on the album Talented 10th?

00:00, 26 January 2013 (UTC)

... that the 660-megawatt Tracy Thermal Generating Station (pictured), a heavy fuel oil-fired power station in Quebec, will be dismantled by the end of 2013?
... that in 1898, Frank Hudson, a five-foot, three-inch quarterback from the Laguna Pueblo tribe, became the first Native American to be selected as an All-American football player?
... that the Assassins' medieval fortress of al-Qadmus was the seat of the Ismaili sect in Syria well into the 19th century during Ottoman rule?
... that vocalist Mike Patton described the tour schedule to promote Tomahawk's Mit Gas as "a lot of time to be sitting in some stinking-ass club with some guy puking in your purse"?
... that Sir Hercules Read of the British Museum advised the Ashmolean to decline the loan of the Anglo-Saxon Fuller Brooch, which he wrongly believed to be a modern fake?
... that the trumpet tree, a fast-growing tree native to the American tropics, is considered one of the hundred worst invasive alien species in the world?
... that one resident of Springfield's East High Street Historic District lived there while governor of Ohio?

25 January 2013

16:00, 25 January 2013 (UTC)

... that in the 2012 Race of Champions, driver Romain Grosjean (pictured) won the Champions of Champions title, while Germany won their sixth consecutive Nations Cup?
... that woodcarver Abel Schrøder, who crafted the altarpieces for the churches of Vester Egesborg, Undløse, and St Martin's, was also St Martin's organist?
... that the Christina Aguilera and Cee Lo Green song "Make the World Move" features a "bonkers arrangement"?
... that despite covering the works of a Christian theologian, the Thomas Aquinas Dictionary does not contain entries for "Redemption", "Incarnation" or "Trinity"?
... that the "Dima Yakovlev Law" forbidding American parents from adopting Russian children was named after a Russian toddler who died after his adoptive American father left him in a car for nine hours?
... that mountaineer Ian McKeever climbed the 26 peaks of the island of Ireland in 98 hours?
... that Detroit's population increased over 1,000 times between 1820 and 1930?

08:00, 25 January 2013 (UTC)

... that the Rama VIII Bridge (pictured) in Bangkok has tower bases designed to resemble an elephant's feet?
... that North Korea claims to have found the cave of a mythological beast said to have been ridden by King Dongmyeong of Goguryeo 2000 years ago?
... that Macumba Station had an average temperature of 111 °F (44 °C) recorded for 50 days in the summer of 1932?
... that Sioux K. Grigsby maintained a law practice for nearly 70 years in addition to serving in the South Dakota state house, senate and as lieutenant governor?
... that the art in the video game Dokuro was inspired by children's storybooks?
... that Max Tera had a forty-one-year career in cinematography with only a junior high school education?
... that Michael Piller likened the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "Lessons" to the film Brief Encounter?

00:00, 25 January 2013 (UTC)

... that when Pope Alexander VI (pictured) issued his bull Dudum siquidem, the mention in it of India caused consternation in Portugal?
... that during the Anlu protests of 1958–61 in Cameroon, women took over power in the Kom region and named their leader a queen?
... that the Juneau Raptor Center, run by an all-volunteer staff, treats any species of bird brought to it for treatment?
... that screenwriter Will Reiser wrote the film 50/50 about his diagnosis of spinal cancer at the age of 25?
... that two years after her departure from the Sugababes, Siobhán Donaghy released her debut single "Overrated", which according to one critic is directed at the group's members?
... that Jeff Gordon won the 2004 Pepsi 400 after teammate Jimmie Johnson pushed him past Dale Earnhardt, Jr. and Tony Stewart?
... that Handkäse mit Musik, popular in Hessian cuisine, gets its name from the flatulence it causes?

24 January 2013

16:00, 24 January 2013 (UTC)

... that the Soldier Artificer Company (members pictured in working dress) was the British Army's first unit of military artificers and labourers?
... that the film The Mirror Never Lies was co-produced by a former Miss Indonesia winner?
... that in 1933, Lady Simon received a damehood for her efforts to combat slavery and racial discrimination?
... that the Cray XK7 platform is used in the most powerful supercomputer in the world?
... that Helen Wright researched the history of telescopes?
... that the Kootznahoo Formation, consisting of conglomerate, sandstone, siltstone, shale and coal, is located in Alaska's Kootznahoo Inlet?
... that opposing players in a game of khong kangjei may challenge each other to a wrestling match?

08:00, 24 January 2013 (UTC)

... that Elaine Didier (pictured), director of the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library and Museum in Michigan, sewed her own wedding dress?
... that in the early 1600s, the Cabal of Naples led Neapolitan painters to harass, expel, or poison non-native painters so that commissions would be won by local artists?
... that NeocoreGames uses their own game engine called Coretech to develop video games?
... that actress Jenni Blong portrayed her character as "a fragile simp with a dirty secret" in her 1998 performance in the play Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
... that while spending on welfare in South Korea has been growing, it is still among the lowest of the OECD countries?
... that IBM physicist Leroy L. Chang, honoured for his work on superlattice heterostructures, moved to HKUST university in 1993 owing to Hong Kong's impending 1997 transfer to Chinese control?
... that at live performances of "Ikuze! Kaitō Shōjo", the audience can see a shrimp jump?

00:00, 24 January 2013 (UTC)

... that in St Edith's Church, Eaton-under-Heywood (pictured), Shropshire, there are bosses carved with grotesques?
... that historian Ron Chernow based his biography Washington: A Life on recently unearthed documentation and materials from the Papers of George Washington?
... that in 2009 Italy became the first nation to host the Mediterranean Games three times?
... that archeologist Anna Curtenius Roosevelt, the great-granddaughter of Theodore Roosevelt, described a pre-Columbian civilization in Brazil as having "outstanding indigenous cultural achievements"?
... that the Buddha's Discourse on Removing Distracting Thoughts says that just as a carpenter replaces a "coarse peg with a fine one", one can replace unskilled thoughts with skilled thoughts?
... that Ohio State linebacker Zach Boren has played both offense and defense during his career at Ohio State?
... that Frankie Fryer is an imitation of Danny Dyer?

23 January 2013

16:00, 23 January 2013 (UTC)

... that the European birch aphid (pictured) and silver birch aphid were thought to be the same species until chromosomal differences between them were found?
... that the India-sponsored Pan-African e-Network project aims to link all member states of the African Union with each other and India through a satellite and submarine cable network?
... that while poverty in South Korea, particularly absolute poverty, has significantly declined since mid-20th century, relative poverty has recently risen?
... that French General Jean Théveney was mentioned in dispatches seven times during the First World War and the occupation of Morocco?
... that The Bay Lights art installation uses 25,000 white LED lights, programmed to create a series of abstract patterns that ascend and descend the cables on the San Francisco Bay Bridge?
... that the town of Plogonnec in Brittany is twinned with Llandysul in West Wales?
... that after his map was stolen, Harry Yates navigated by the Leaning Tower and landed his plane in a volcano crater?

08:00, 23 January 2013 (UTC)

... that Usmar Ismail's (pictured) Darah dan Doa has been considered both his directorial debut and the first Indonesian film, although he had already directed two films?
... that in 1961, Zarzaitine was considered to be the largest oil field of the eastern Sahara, with primary reserves of 80 million tons?
... that Barrie Edgar produced the first television broadcast from a submarine?
... that before the Ba'ath Party took power in Syria, Tell Touqan was a feudal village where most residents worked as laborers for land owned by seven families?
... that Toby Love called his song "Tengo Un Amor" the "door-opener" for all of his future success?
... that the Singaporean film Taxi! Taxi! marks local YouTube star Dr Jia Jia's film debut?
... that the French racehorse Caracalla was rated the best horse in the world in 1946?

00:00, 23 January 2013 (UTC)

... that Dave Gunness (pictured) designed concert loudspeakers used by Eric Clapton, Paul McCartney, Iron Maiden, Pearl Jam, Usher, and Snoop Dogg?
... that the Gibraltar Socialist Labour Party proposed that a main road in Gibraltar should be Devlin's instead of the Devil's?
... that Kareem Joseph scored a pair of goals in the 2011 First Citizens Cup final to give Caledonia AIA their first league cup in club history with a 2–1 victory over T&TEC?
... that the Archdiocesan Cathedral of the Holy Trinity is the largest Orthodox Christian church in the Western Hemisphere?
... that the northern Syrian village of Zarzur has been identified as the Bronze Age town of Zuzzura of the Alalakh kingdom?
... that in his memoir, The Tower of Babble, Richard Stursberg reveals the details of his negotiations with Gary Bettman to extend Hockey Night in Canada's NHL broadcasting rights?
... that the Austrian tenor Karl Beck became a master baker after his singing career, which included creating the title role in Wagner's opera Lohengrin, was cut short by a deterioration in his voice?

22 January 2013

16:00, 22 January 2013 (UTC)

... that unlike the living golden-club Orontium aquaticum (pictured), the extinct species Orontium mackii may not have needed wetlands to grow?
... that Miran Pastourma has been serving Pastourma in Athens for over 90 years?
... that the characters of Che'r Cycle, a 2009 Bengali drama, included Che Guevara, Aleida March, Fidel Castro, and Raul Castro?
... that James Hogun, a general in the Continental Army, asked to be held as a POW after the Siege of Charleston in order to prevent the British from recruiting soldiers among the enlisted Patriot POWs?
... that a Roman-era temple in al-Sanamayn, originally dedicated to the Greek goddess Tyche in the 2nd century CE and later converted into a mosque, is one of the best preserved edifices in Syria?
... that the Star Trek: Enterprise episode "Affliction" explains why Klingons look different in the original series compared to the movies and later series?
... that the Viscount Vane's offer of a reward in the newspapers for information about his eloped wife was compared to a search for "some favourite spaniel bitch"?

08:00, 22 January 2013 (UTC)

... that Bobbi Sue Luther (pictured) claimed that her costume in the Star Trek: Enterprise episode "Borderland" was skimpier than her normal outfits as a lingerie and bikini model?
... that volcanologist Harry Glicken was saved from the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens due to a scheduling conflict, only to die in the eruption of Mount Unzen in 1991?
... that Mosconi was the first Italian restaurant in the Benelux nations to receive a Michelin star?
... that though Balasaraswati was called "a revolutionary Bharata Natyam dancer", she was only filmed at the age of 58 in Bala, a documentary made by Satyajit Ray?
... that Harry Redford, the cattle duffer and drover upon whom the character Captain Starlight was based, drove the first mob of cattle to and later managed Brunette Downs Station?
... that the Russian ship of the line Gangut was credited with sinking two Ottoman frigates, a fire ship, and destroying a shore battery during the Battle of Navarino in 1827?
... that although the cream-spot ladybird is sometimes called the "eighteen-spot ladybird", the species name indicates it has fourteen spots?

00:00, 22 January 2013 (UTC)

... that Teresa Perales (pictured) is the most decorated Spanish paralympian in history?
... that the Lesbian Herstory Archives hold the library of the New York City chapter of the Daughters of Bilitis?
... that James Gwyn was awarded the rank of Brèvet Major-General by President Abraham Lincoln in 1864?
... that Japanese idol group NEWS became the third group in history to earn their fifteenth consecutive number-one single on the weekly Oricon singles chart with "World Quest/Pokopon Pekōrya"?
... that Patience Latting was not just the first female Mayor of Oklahoma City, but also the first woman to serve as mayor of any U.S. city exceeding 350,000 people?
... that the tale of the Great Flood and the Ark is also told in Hinduism?
... that in the 1889–90 Currie Cup, Charlie Finlason was made to bat last for the Transvaal cricket team because he had criticised the team's captain in the press?

21 January 2013

16:00, 21 January 2013 (UTC)

... that Harris's antelope squirrel (pictured) doesn't sweat, but instead salivates in order to keep cool?
... that Napoleon III, Emperor of France, bought the American ironclad Dunderberg in 1867 over the objections of his own navy, which preferred a home-built ship?
... that Canadian singer Justin Bieber holds the record for the most consecutive weeks at number-one on the Billboard Social 50 with 24?
... that Hurricane Debbie in September 1961 produced record-breaking winds across parts of Ireland, gusting up to 114 mph (183 km/h) off the coast of Arranmore?
... that journalist Roberto Javier Mora García was stabbed 26 times and killed, allegedly for reporting on the Mexican drug cartels?
... that the former "Nazi proconsul" Rudolf Rahn confirmed there had been a German plot to kidnap Pope Pius XII?
... that Alfred Jeacocke nearly had to stop playing cricket for Surrey because he lived on the wrong side of the road?

08:15, 21 January 2013 (UTC)

... that during the Siege of Mecca by the Umayyads in 683, the Kaaba (pictured) caught fire and burned down?
... that the only squad led by Bear Bryant during his tenure as head coach at Alabama that did not participate in a bowl game was the 1958 team?
... that Gervase de Cornhill, a medieval English royal official and merchant, loaned money to Queen Matilda around 1143, and when the queen did not repay, got the mortgaged lands at Gamlingay instead?
... that the film El Presidente, an official 2012 Metro Manila Film Festival entry, is possibly the most expensive Filipino film of all time?
... that Sister Margaret McKenna and other activists were arrested for participating in a "die-in" on the lawn of The Pentagon?
... that the release of "Suit & Tie", Justin Timberlake's first solo single in six years, was used to tie in with the re-launch of Myspace?
... that Nello Carrara coined the term "microwave"?

00:30, 21 January 2013 (UTC)

... that Thomas Bewick's History of British Birds (example woodcut pictured) was the book thrown at Jane Eyre when she was ten?
... that Captain America: The Winter Soldier, the upcoming sequel to the 2011 film Captain America: The First Avenger, will feature the Falcon, the first African American superhero?
... that Dennis Tinerino was a four-time Mr. Universe winner, a pimp, and an Evangelist Christian minister?
... that author Elizabeth Jordan edited the first two novels of Nobel Prize winner Sinclair Lewis?
... that the Krkonose / Karkonosze Biosphere Reserve (MaB) is one of only two successful UNESCO transboundary management structures in existence?
... that the Wong brothers' film Fatima reportedly earned 200,000 gulden on a 7,000 gulden investment?
... that the Etruscan Regolini-Galassi tomb, which dates to the 7th century BC, was discovered in 1836 in an undisturbed condition?

20 January 2013

16:45, 20 January 2013 (UTC)

... that IIAB meteorites (example pictured) have the lowest concentration of nickel of all iron meteorite groups?
... that 3 Gourmohan Mukherjee Street, Kolkata, is the birthplace of Indian monk Swami Vivekananda?
... that Lord William Hamilton, Vice-Chamberlain to Caroline of Ansbach, was so poor that the Queen described him and his wife as "handsome beggars"?
... that Shane Warne's last competitive game at the Lord's Cricket Ground was the British Asian Cup?
... that the Upper Twin Falls Bridge was built to replace a previous span that would have been flooded upon completion of a dam downstream?
... that Alessandro Cagno, the winner of the inaugural Targa Florio in 1906, was the third employee recruited by Fiat?
... that during the eighteenth century, guards posted at Middle Hill Battery on Middle Hill, Gibraltar, to prevent desertion sometimes deserted themselves?

09:00, 20 January 2013 (UTC)

... that Sydney Barnes (pictured) took 24 five-wicket hauls in 27 Test cricket appearances?
... that the Swara Samrat festival was dedicated to Indian sitarist Pandit Ravi Shankar and sarod player Ustad Ali Akbar Khan?
... that American mammalogist and pathologist Marcus Ward Lyon, Jr. published more than 160 papers during the course of his career?
... that the controversial Argentine governor Juan Manuel de Rosas, who died in Southampton in 1877, was repatriated over a century later?
... that Christian princes, counts and writers flocked to the court of the first Sadigura Rebbe, Avrohom Yaakov Friedman?
... that the spider genus Predatoroonops received its name after its species' similarities to the creature from Predator?
... that future Hockey Hall of Famer Billy McGimsie achieved his dream of winning the Stanley Cup with the Kenora Thistles in 1907, then suffered a career-ending injury in his next game?

01:15, 20 January 2013 (UTC)

... that Varahanatha Temple (pictured) has erotic sculptures and amorous couples carved on its outer wall?
... that according to The Cleanest Race, a book about North Korean propaganda, the Government of North Korea is guided by a derivation of Japanese fascism?
... that Henry Archer, an English Fifth Monarchist, predicted in 1642 that Jesus would return in around 1700?
... that a Greek Hospital in Istanbul has been in service since 1753?
... that Charlotte Higgins compared the depiction of Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge in Paul Emsley's portrait to a character in The Twilight Saga?
... that René Cárdenas is the first broadcaster to announce Major League Baseball games in Spanish?
... that Heidi Range portrays a stripper in the music video for "Stronger"?

19 January 2013

17:30, 19 January 2013 (UTC)

... that the starfish Luidia quinaria (pictured) produces the steroid asterosaponin, which may help in treating coughs and asthma?
... that Drexel 4041, a manuscript in the New York Public Library, is a major source of music for the 17th-century British composer William Lawes?
... that Gene Dale's expulsion from baseball for match fixing provided the precedent for banning the Black Sox Scandal conspirators?
... that an estimated 90 per cent of Saudi Arabia's workforce is made up of foreign workers?
... that Abd al-Malik Abd al-Wahid, the one-eyed son of Moroccan sultan Abu al-Hasan Ali ibn Othman, captured Gibraltar in 1333 but fell victim to a Castilian ambush six years later?
... that South Africa's 1996–97 tour of India marked their first ever Test appearance against India in the subcontinent?
... that the twin sister of the anti-war activist Lady Parmoor was imprisoned for publishing a leaflet uncensored by the government?

09:45, 19 January 2013 (UTC)

... that the Ladak pika (pictured) is thought to survive the winters of the Himalayan Plateau by eating roots?
... that freedom fighter Jatindra Mohan Sengupta of India is called Deshapriya (beloved of the country) by people of Bengal?
... that the statue of Sherlock Holmes in London was funded by the Abbey National building society?
... that maps by Nicolas de Fer became Bourbon propaganda when he was official geographer of Louis XIV?
... that Yoko Ono's song "Death of Samantha" was inspired by John Lennon's boorish behavior at a party, and seemed to describe the vigil for Lennon's death?
... that Ross Broadfoot became part of London Irish's squad while still a student at the University of Cambridge?
... that when Lilian Bland built an aircraft in 1910, she used her aunt's ear-trumpet and a whisky bottle to feed petrol to the engine?

02:00, 19 January 2013 (UTC)

... that Austro-Hungarian consul in Shkodër Theodor Anton Ippen (pictured) was photographed in 1900 wearing an Albanian costume?
... that Tomahawk's third album Anonymous was based on Native American compositions researched by guitarist Duane Denison?
... that Tony Minson developed a new way of disabling viruses for vaccines?
... that the Dutch warship Koningin Regentes, her sister ship De Ruyter and the protected cruiser Zeeland bombarded the city of Denpasar, Dutch East Indies, on 16 and 17 September 1906?
... that abernathyite is both fluorescent and radioactive and is named for the mine operator who discovered it?
... that the title track of the celtic punk album Toil has been compared to the Bruce Springsteen album Wrecking Ball?
... that to prevent match-fixing at the 2002 Morocco Cup cricket tournament, CCTV cameras were installed in the dressing rooms?

18 January 2013

16:00, 18 January 2013 (UTC)

... that the Hindu scriptures describe how a boar (pictured) rescued the earth, which had been kidnapped and hidden in the primordial waters?
... that Ankarafantsika National Park in Madagascar is home to the rhinoceros chameleon and the greater big-footed mouse?
... that when French Colonel Antoine Huré led a column to relieve the French garrison at Aïn Médiouna in 1919, elements of it marched 62 kilometres (39 miles) in a single day?
... that an Israeli military convoy descended the Scorpion Pass at night in Operation Lot of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, and many drivers refused to go down the path out of fear?
... that baseball player Kentrail Davis credited working in construction with helping him gain the upper body strength to become a power hitter?
... that Young Women for Change is a women's rights non-profit organization in Afghanistan that has held the first anti-harassment march in Afghan history, in July 2012?
... that John Hemmingham was banned from Sheffield United's Bramall Lane stadium because of concerns that playing music might structurally damage the stands?

08:00, 18 January 2013 (UTC)

... that Clemente Susini's "Little Venus" (pictured) has removable layers that reveal her internal organs, including her pregnancy?
... that Hurricane Carla ranks as the most intense U.S. tropical cyclone landfall on the Hurricane Severity Index?
... that the Battle of Marj Rahit in 684 helped solidify the division of the Arab tribes between "northern" and "southern", whose rivalry lasted in Palestine until the 19th century?
... that the premise of the Fringe episode "Power Hungry" began with the idea of a computer virus being able to spread to humans?
... that Lieutenant-Colonel René Laverdure, who commanded French forces at the Battle of El Herri, entered the army as a private soldier?
... that transformation belts were used in the filming of the music video for "Z Legend: Neverending Revolution" by Momoiro Clover Z?
... that Australian magician Leslie George Cole created the impaling illusion?

00:00, 18 January 2013 (UTC)

... that caterpillars of the Red-necked Footman (pictured) feed on lichens?
... that Simon Favre was an interpreter of the Muskogean languages for four different governments in West Florida, and with a Choctaw mistress became the ancestor of a well-known NFL quarterback?
... that the 9.2-inch gun of Spur Battery, one of fourteen once mounted on Gibraltar, was moved to Imperial War Museum Duxford after its role was taken over by Exocet missiles?
... that Dominican nun Marion Irvine became the then-oldest participant at a U.S. track and field Olympic Trials in 1984, running in the women's marathon trials at the age of 54?
... that the song "Detrás de Mi Ventana" written by Ricardo Arjona has been recorded in banda, mariachi, merengue and pop versions by different performers?
... that the Nikolaj gained prominence after the Fluxus performances of the 1960s?
... that Sir James Hales' suicide by drowning inspired the gravedigger's speech in Shakespeare's Hamlet?

17 January 2013

16:00, 17 January 2013 (UTC)

... that Alfie Fripp, the longest-serving and oldest-surviving British prisoner of war of World War II, "liberated" tools used in the excavation of the Great Escape tunnel (pictured)?
... that temperature and salinity variations produced by ocean tides and freshwater rivers in estuaries make them ideal habitats for studying how these factors affect the growth of shells?
... that Sudha Varghese established the Prerna schools to educate Musahar girls of Bihar, deemed the "untouchables" in the caste system in India?
... that Mundrabilla I is the eleventh largest meteorite fragment ever found?
... that novelist Mary Angela Dickens, the oldest grandchild of Charles Dickens, died on the 136th anniversary of his birth?
... that Gary Kirsten's 275 against England is the second longest innings in the history of Test cricket, lasting for almost 14 hours?
... that John Lennon thought that his song "Nobody Loves You (When You're Down and Out)" would be ideal for Frank Sinatra?

08:00, 17 January 2013 (UTC)

... that at the age of 24 Holger Stromberg (pictured) was the youngest chef in Germany to be awarded a Michelin star?
... that American singer-songwriter Kelis co-wrote the song "Waiting" for Cheryl Cole's second album Messy Little Raindrops?
... that the Hagia Triada Greek Orthodox Church in Istanbul was burnt during a riot in 1955?
... that Raymond D. Tarbuck, a U.S. Navy captain on General Douglas MacArthur's staff, predicted the Battle of Leyte Gulf but was ignored?
... that Kepler-47c is a circumbinary planet orbiting in the habitable zone of Kepler-47, a binary star system?
... that filmmaker René Vautier received thirteen indictments and a year in prison because of his documentary Afrique 50?
... that the Fucking mayor objected to Fucking Hell on the grounds that there was no Fucking brewery?

00:20, 17 January 2013 (UTC)

... that Kankalamurti (pictured) carries a staff on which the bones of the arms and legs of the slain person are tied?
... that the mineral abelsonite probably formed from chlorophyll and is the only known crystalline geoporphyrin?
... that the medieval royal official Reginald de Warenne (died 1179) was one of the first persons summoned as a Serjeant-at-Law, when he was summoned in 1168 by King Henry II of England?
... that in 1964 historian Mary C. Wright became the first woman to be named as a full professor in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Yale University?
... that at the Battle of Dubienka, Tadeusz Kościuszko repulsed an attack from Imperial Russian Army forces five times the size of his own?
... that Roz Howard's 1958 NASCAR season was cut short by a highway crash that left him in a body cast?
... that in his memoir Who I Am, Pete Townshend of The Who says that Mick Jagger "is the only man I've ever seriously wanted to" have sex with?

16 January 2013

16:00, 16 January 2013 (UTC)

... that Australia's Warren Bardsley and Charles Kellaway were only listed on the Lord's Honours Boards (pictured) 98 years after they had fulfilled the requirements, due to the lack of a neutral board?
... that although Gabrielle Matthaei did the majority of the work in determining the role of temperature in photosynthesis, the biochemical reactions are named after Frederick Blackman?
... that Ivy Queen performed the English version of "Papi Te Quiero" on Good Morning America?
... that Grace Rohrer became the first woman to hold a North Carolina Cabinet position when named Secretary of Cultural Resources in 1973?
... that 82% of land-based Filipinos in Norway are women?
... that Weldon Chan eluded the Mounties for over three years?
... that London 2012 Olympic volunteers criticised the UDAC for not having any mirrors?

08:00, 16 January 2013 (UTC)

... that St Mary's Church, Cleobury Mortimer, in Shropshire is notable for its twisted spire (pictured)?
... that after Tim Breslin's death the American Hockey League's Chicago Wolves created a team award in his honor?
... that crime reporter Dolores Guadalupe García Escamilla was accused of collaborating with the Gulf Cartel, a Mexican drug trafficking organization?
... that the contract for the four ironclad Milwaukee-class monitors was awarded to James Eads, partly due to the influence of Missouri Congressman Frank P. Blair, Jr.?
... that Paul Michaux became the first president of the Conférence Olivaint, France's oldest student society, in 1897?
... that tantalum pentaethoxide is used in the production of optical, electrochromic, and semiconductor devices?
... that a reviewer called the narrator in the game Defenders of Ardania "booze-obsessed", with a voice that sounds like "a Dalek doing an impression of Sean Connery"?

00:00, 16 January 2013 (UTC)

... that shells of the Eastern Pacific giant conch, Lobatus galeatus (pictured), were used as wind instruments by a pre-Incan civilization nearly 3000 years ago?
... that in 1970, the English Court of Appeal found that Scientology does not engage in religious worship?
... that opera singer Thérésa was "admired" by Napoleon III?
... that the award-winning Indonesian war film Serangan Fajar and the 1963 Hollywood film PT 109 have been compared for their "mild hagiography" of their countries' leaders?
... that Rhett A. Hernandez took command of the U.S. Second Army upon its reactivation in 2010?
... that in the video game Frog Fractions, the player travels from a lily pad on Earth to Mars, where they must obtain a work visa to continue working on the planet?
... that Tsholofelo Thipe, who represented South Africa in the 400 metres at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, failed drug tests in 2012 due to her contraceptive?

15 January 2013

16:00, 15 January 2013 (UTC)

... that after assassinating a former warlord, Shi Jianqiao (pictured) distributed pamphlets explaining her deed?
... that the Gaulden Manor ceiling depicts Judgement Day?
... that Filipinos in Oman sent back US$66.5 million in remittances to the Philippines in 2011?
... that British High Commissioner Alan Jones had to order an evacuation in his first week in Sierra Leone?
... that ancestors of the fishtail oak of North Queensland diverged from the South American genus Roupala around 30 million years ago?
... that John Gatins, the Academy Award-nominated screenwriter of Flight, got into scriptwriting when a fellow Vassar graduate offered him $1,000 to pen a screenplay?
... that due to a campaign in Turkey, speaking a language other than Turkish was illegal in many parts of the country?

08:00, 15 January 2013 (UTC)

... that François Roudaire (pictured) proposed flooding the Sahara by a channel cut from the Mediterranean to the Chott el Fejej, an event which was portrayed in Jules Verne's last novel, and later was re-imagined with nuclear explosives?
... that Indian filmmaker Satyajit Ray paid tribute to the silent film genre through his short film Two (1964), made without any dialogue, which also makes "a strong anti-war statement"?
... that Israel expressed objections to the newly launched Turkish reconnaissance satellite Göktürk-2, fearing that high resolution imagery of Israel would eventually fall into the wrong hands?
... that Riza Cerova, an anti-monarchist activist of interwar Albania, became regarded as a hero after the final overthrow of monarchy in the post-WWII era?
... that Yoko Ono's 1969 song "Don't Worry Kyoko (Mummy's Only Looking for Her Hand in the Snow)" was inspired by a custody battle over her daughter, with whom she didn't reunite for another 25 years?
... that in 1865 Manuel Antonio Caro became the first Chilean student to attend the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris?
... that the upcoming video game Star Trek has had its genre described as "bro-op"?

00:00, 15 January 2013 (UTC)

... that the exact copy of Our Lady of Lourdes from the Grotto of Apparitions pilgrimaged by John Paul II adorns the main altar of the Church of the Holy Virgin Mary of Lourdes (pictured) in Kraków?
... that IL Hødd goalkeeper Ørjan Nyland was signed by Tippeligaen champions Molde after being named man of the match in the 2012 Norwegian Football Cup Final?
... that Sir Robert Constable was a descendant of Richard, Earl of Cambridge, executed for his part in the Southampton Plot against King Henry V?
... that as part of their May 1975 occupation of Thổ Chu Island, the Khmer Rouge kidnapped over 500 islanders and razed several villages?
... that Mount Cunningham on South Georgia was named after John Crabbe Cunningham who died after being struck by waves off Holyhead?
... that the rule of mixtures predicts composite material properties ranging from ultimate tensile strength to electrical conductivity?
... that John Lennon's "I'm Losing You" and Yoko Ono's "I'm Moving On," both from the 1980 Double Fantasy album, reflect the couple's diverse reactions to their marital tensions?

14 January 2013

16:00, 14 January 2013 (UTC)

... that when the Plaza Mayor of Manila (pictured) was renamed Plaza de Roma in 1961, the city of Rome reciprocated by renaming one of its squares "Piazza Manila"?
... that lecturer Louise Matthaei was dismissed by the University of Cambridge because her father was German?
... that out of thirty-one international cricket centuries scored by Aravinda de Silva, eleven were made against Pakistan?
... that the Abbasid grandee Khuzayma ibn Khazim secured the succession of Harun al-Rashid as Caliph by forcing Harun's nephew to publicly renounce his claim on the throne?
... that highly charged HZE ions make up just 1% of galactic cosmic rays, but they cause as much biological damage to astronauts as protons, which make up 85%?
... that A. F. James MacArthur broadcast his standoff with the Baltimore Police Department to 10,000 online listeners?
... that Pengantin Pantai Biru, based on a 1908 novel, was banned as pornographic?

08:00, 14 January 2013 (UTC)

... that the Proteaceae plant genus Roupala (R. montana pictured) spread into South America as it split off from Gondwana 110 million years ago and then into Central America six million years ago?
... that the Singapore Constitution that came into force on 9 August 1965 was not drafted as a single document but was made up of provisions from three separate statutes?
... that Gerald Feldman, an American historian, conducted research and published books on the role of business in Nazi Germany?
... that the video game Scarygirl puts players in control of a young girl with an eye patch, a sewn-shut mouth, and a hook-capped tentacle for one arm?
... that Nahapet Rusinian wrote the lyrics to an Armenian song called "Giligia"?
... that a prehistoric mound is located on the U.S. Air Force's Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio?
... that sports journalist Dick Beddoes ate one of his columns with borscht when he wrongly predicted that Canada's hockey team would sweep the Summit Series?

00:00, 14 January 2013 (UTC)

... that in the video game The Splatters players detonate bombs by flinging anthropomorphized globs of goo (pictured) at them?
... that the first Indonesian novel by a woman, Kalau Tak Untung, deals with an "inexorable fate" which all humans must face?
... that Nathan Hannay was appointed as captain of Jersey Rugby Football Club after rejecting advances from Exeter Chiefs?
... that Cuban singer-songwriter Jon Secada earned the Grammy Award and received the highest number of nominations at the Lo Nuestro Awards in 1993?
... that 60% of Filipinos in Kuwait are employed as domestic workers?
... that Admiral John M. Richardson received the James Bond Stockdale Leadership Award?
... that Lepiota castaneidisca mushrooms smell like cod-liver oil?

13 January 2013

16:00, 13 January 2013 (UTC)

... that the frog Paedophryne swiftorum (pictured) was discovered by a student on a 2008 Cornell University expedition to Papua New Guinea?
... that because of the 1963 coup d'état the government of Togo was not invited to the conference which created the Organisation of African Unity?
... that soprano Rachel Nicholls, a performer of Wagner's Brünnhilde, sang in Bach's dialogue cantata Liebster Jesu, mein Verlangen (Dearest Jesus, my desire) "a clear Lutheran analogy to a love duet"?
... that The Sesame Street Dictionary contains around 1,300 illustrations of Muppets?
... that English cricketer Graham Gooch is the only centurion in Test cricket history to have been dismissed by handling the ball?
... that the 2012 film Django Unchained received eight award nominations from the St. Louis Gateway Film Critics Association, the most of any film?
... that in Hell Yeah! Wrath of the Dead Rabbit the prince of Hell is a rubber duck-loving rabbit?

08:00, 13 January 2013 (UTC)

... that customarily, in a Minangkabau marriage (pictured), the bridegroom lives with his sister and visits his wife's house only at night?
... that Secretary Dorjjavin Luvsansharav of the Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party presided over the arrest and execution of over 25,000 "enemies of the revolution" between 1937 and 1939?
... that the American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012, which addressed the U.S. fiscal cliff, was passed by the houses of the U.S. Congress near the beginning and near the end of New Year's Day 2013?
... that Vishvaksena is described as the commander-in-chief of the army of the god Vishnu and the gate-keeper and "chamberlain" of Vishnu's abode Vaikuntha?
... that Body of Proof episode "Missing" featured Slaine as the episode's murderer, a role which was his first venture into network television?
... that Talite Vaioleti was an LDS missionary in Australia before becoming a rugby union international for Tonga?
... that the rovers of the planned Phobos Surveyor are known as "hedgehogs"?

00:00, 13 January 2013 (UTC)

... that the Saleh Mosque (pictured), built in Sana'a in 2008 at a cost of US$60 million, was considered too expensive in relation to the 42% of Yemenis who live in poverty?
... that George Williamson Crawford, a New Haven city official, activist, and freemason, was the second black graduate of Yale Law School?
... that the interactive fiction Source engine modification The Stanley Parable was designed to "mess with the player's head in every way possible"?
... that 19th-century British missionary Samuel Lyde sparked months of anti-Christian rioting in Palestine after killing a beggar?
... that the type specimen of Scolosaurus seriously injured its discoverer, who was excavating it when it fell on him?
... that a fictional alien race in Star Trek called Bolians were named after television director Cliff Bole, who directed 42 episodes of the franchise?
... that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle compared the suffragette arson attack on the Nevill Ground to "blowing up a blind man and his dog"?

12 January 2013

16:00, 12 January 2013 (UTC)

... that dishes based on perfumes (DKNY adaptation pictured) are served at El Celler de Can Roca, ranked second in The World's 50 Best Restaurants?
... that Jack Crossland was expelled from county cricket for living in the wrong place?
... that the strategic fortress of Baarin in central Syria was captured by Imad ad-Din Zengi from the Crusaders in the Battle of Ba'rin in 1137?
... that on 18 July 1967, the Fourth Legislative Assembly of Madras state unanimously adopted a resolution to change the name of the state to Tamil Nadu?
... that in the Southern Hemisphere, the coral Acropora secale normally spawns in November, six days after the full moon?
... that in the Chicken Kiev speech, then-US President George Bush encouraged Ukraine to remain within the Soviet Union?
... that Welsh actress Tara Bethan was babysat by Giant Haystacks?

08:00, 12 January 2013 (UTC)

... that the Bengali prayer song Khandana Bhava–Bandhana was composed by Hindu monk Swami Vivekananda (pictured)?
... that scientist Stuart Firestein uses an analogy of finding a black cat in a dark room to describe the scientific method?
... that the war film Janur Kuning (Yellow Coconut Leaves) has been read as portraying General Sudirman with mystic powers?
... that Lamington National Park was established due to Romeo Lahey's tireless campaigning and petitioning?
... that Phnom Santuk hill is the most sacred mountain of the Kampong Thom in Cambodia with several reclining Buddhas?
... that Abdul Qadir took eight of his Test five-wicket hauls against England and his best bowling figures in an innings were 9 wickets for 56 runs against them?
... that the unusual name Quinyambie is the Aboriginal word for excreta?

00:00, 12 January 2013 (UTC)

... that Northwest Africa 7034 (pictured) is a type of Martian meteorite never before seen, and has more water in it than any other yet discovered?
... that African-American civil rights leader Xernona Clayton convinced a Grand Dragon of the Ku Klux Klan to denounce the Klan?
... that a modified version of a chemical naturally occurring in the mushroom Strobilurus tenacellus is the world's biggest-selling fungicide?
... that the attack against Mehmed Ali Pasha was the first military operation of the League of Prizren?
... that short animation film Tadeo Jones contains elements from Raiders of the Lost Ark?
... that the Greenwood Tunnel in Virginia was completed without accident, even though engineer Claudius Crozet described the work as "excessively dangerous"?
... that the orchid bee Euglossa bazinga was named after the catchphrase of Sheldon Cooper from the television show The Big Bang Theory, despite the character's allergy to bees?

11 January 2013

16:00, 11 January 2013 (UTC)

... that Progressive American journalist Benjamin Orange Flower (pictured) once defended Christian Science, claiming its followers were the recipients of a "persistent campaign of falsehood, slander and calumny"?
... that the eastern Syrian town of al-Asharah on the Euphrates River is the site of the Bronze Age city of Terqa?
... that the Saxxy Awards is a competition for films that are created using the video game Team Fortress 2?
... that Nicholas de Sigillo, Archdeacon of Huntingdon from around 1164 to after 1187, may be the same person as the donor of a Great Bible to Lincoln Cathedral?
... that in the Phnom Sampeau hills, during the atrocities committed by the Khmer Rouge, many victims were bludgeoned and tossed into holes that served as skylights to the caves?
... that the picture in the Labour Isn't Working poster was used by both the UK Conservatives and the US Republicans in their respective 1979 and 2012 election campaigns?
... that George Nicol pitched a seven-inning no-hitter in his major league debut that was later erased from the record books in 1991?

08:00, 11 January 2013 (UTC)

... that Attapeu, Bokeo, Bolikhamxai, Champasak, Houaphan, Khammouane, Luang Namtha, Luang Prabang, Oudomxai, Phongsali, Sainyabuli, Salavan, Savannakhet, Sekong, Xiangkhoang and the Vientiane Province and Prefecture form the provinces of Laos (mapped)?
... that SWAPO's partisan radio station Voice of Namibia employed a number of staff that today are high–ranking Namibian government officials, including Minister of Labour and Social Welfare Doreen Sioka?
... that after surviving an assassination attempt, Mexican journalist Pablo Pineda Gaucín made funeral arrangements?
... that Canadian band Arcade Fire are the only act to have topped HMV's Poll of Polls more than once?
... that during the Battle of Żownin, Cossack forces constructed a bridge under the cover of darkness to relocate their camp?
... that a large mosaic covers the entire floor of the Byzantine-era Church of the Holy Martyrs, built in 442 CE, in the Syrian town of Taybat al-Imam?
... that during the First World War former archaeologist Colonel Gaston Cros said that "instead of artefacts ... I find German shells, it is not without excitement"?

00:00, 11 January 2013 (UTC)

... that Wallace wrote about, and Poulton published James Wood-Mason's flower mantis drawing (pictured)?
... that the video game Party Place is Zynga's first 3D mobile game?
... that Tulsa football running back Trey Watts' father, J.C. Watts, is a former United States congressman and quarterback of the Oklahoma Sooners?
... that during the Siege of Zbarazh the Polish-Lithuanian army withstood the assaults of the Cossack and Tatar army, about twenty times its own size?
... that journalist Enrique Perea Quintanilla was tortured and killed, allegedly for his coverage on political corruption and drug trafficking in Mexico?
... that resuscitative thoracotomy revives only 10% of people with blunt trauma who receive it?
... that the British Army requisitioned the Manor House in Chew Magna during World War II until they discovered it had no electricity, running water or modern sanitation?

10 January 2013

16:00, 10 January 2013 (UTC)

... that the White Elephant Cave (similar cave pictured) in Phnom Sorsia mountain, Cambodia, is named after the many stalagmites which have the shape of white elephants?
... that Italian Antonio Lago bought the Paris factory of Automobiles Talbot and founded the French Talbot-Lago marque?
... that Naoki Yoshida chose to completely remake the massively multiplayer online role-playing game Final Fantasy XIV as Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn in order to regain the trust of its players?
... that "The Lass of Richmond Hill", said to be one of George III's favourite songs, was written by an Irish republican revolutionary leader who became a British government double agent?
... that fashion magazine Marie Claire's co-founder Marcelle Auclair also wrote biographies of socialist Jean Jaures and Catholic Saints Teresa of Avila and Bernadette of Lourdes?
... that the National Intercollegiate Band, established in 1947 by Kappa Kappa Psi and Tau Beta Sigma, is the oldest intercollegiate band in the United States?
... that a Turkish Armenian soldier was killed on the Armenian Genocide remembrance day?

08:00, 10 January 2013 (UTC)

... that the Sana'a manuscript (pictured) was discovered in the attic of the Great Mosque in 1972?
... that the upcoming video game War for the Overworld has players digging and building dungeons?
... that poet Henry Constable was imprisoned in both the Tower and the Fleet?
... that the four Kalamazoo-class monitors, begun during the American Civil War, were eventually scrapped because the unseasoned wood of their hulls rotted while they were still on the building stocks?
... that Albert G. Mumma was part of a 75-man force from the Alsos Mission and 30 Assault Unit that captured the 150,000-man garrison of Kiel during World War II?
... that for Homme, David Beckham wanted to create a modern, masculine fragrance that reflects his own personal style?
... that Pritilata Waddedar led an attack on the Pahartali European Club, which displayed a sign saying "Dogs and Indians not allowed"?

00:00, 10 January 2013 (UTC)

... that Shatrunjaya is a sacred site for Jains, containing hundreds of Palitana temples (pictured)?
... that a program developed by Allan Ronald has been "pivotal" in understanding and preventing transmission of AIDS in Africa?
... that Dave Brubeck's wife Iola wrote the lyrics to "In Your Own Sweet Way"?
... that Jarman Gap in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia is the site of the first European settlement in the mountain area near Albemarle County?
... that the Kpove War or Dung Pot War got its name when Ndawa had a large hole dug and filled with dung, threatening to throw any of his troops into the hole if they left battle?
... that the Distinguished Service to Music Medal, presented by Kappa Kappa Psi for "exceptional service to American bands and band music", has been awarded 137 times since 1964?
... that Axel Törneman's friends were able to locate him by following the sketches he left in Paris cafés?

9 January 2013

16:00, 9 January 2013 (UTC)

... that the grass octopus (pictured) puts on a deimatic display of brownish red with white spots to scare predators?
... that bonuses promised to girls for Sumangali work in Tamil Nadu are deducted from their stipends and held until they complete three years of work, a form of debt bondage illegal in India since 1976?
... that General Noël Garnier-Duplessis' commands during the First World War included troops from France, Russia and the US?
... that the chief of the Tehran bureau of the Iranian Cyber Police was dismissed in December 2012 after Iranian blogger Sattar Beheshti died in their custody?
... that English cricketer Carol Valentine was a part of the first ever Women's Test match that was played between England and Australia?
... that the inhabitants of the Syrian village of Kafr Zita claim descent from the Mawali tribes who dominated the northern Syrian Desert until the 18th century?
... that inside All Saints Church, Claverley, Shropshire, is a carving of two dragons nibbling a human head?

08:00, 9 January 2013 (UTC)

... that Hashim Amla (pictured) is the only cricketer to score a triple century for South Africa, and the fastest batsman to reach 2,000 and 3,000 runs in One Day International cricket?
... that Richard von Hegener was a primary organizer of the Nazi Action T4 adult and child euthanasia program, whose method of gassing victims was a forerunner to the gas chambers of the Holocaust?
... that author Terry McMillan based a character in her book How Stella Got Her Groove Back on author Doris Jean Austin, her best friend?
... that the Itqiy meteorite fell near a hamlet in Western Sahara after which it is named?
... that Christina Aguilera describes "Army of Me" as an "updated version" of her 2002 song "Fighter"?
... that the survival horror video game Miasmata was developed over four years by two brothers, and they created their own game engine for it?
... that the McDonald Farm near Xenia supplied Ohio's portion of the Washington Monument?

00:00, 9 January 2013 (UTC)

... that St. Peter's Episcopal Church (pictured) in Albany, New York, still has a silver communion service set given as a gift by Queen Anne?
... that the 1943 death of the Polish government in exile leader, general Władysław Sikorski, led to a number of conspiracy theories?
... that the Pambamarca Fortress Complex is a large installation of many Inca Pucarás?
... that Donnie Andrews was the main inspiration for the character of Omar Little on The Wire?
... that the author of Awful Splendour: A Fire History of Canada worked 15 years as a wildland firefighter on the North Rim of the Grand Canyon?
... that in "My Mummy's Dead", John Lennon used the tune of the nursery rhyme "Three Blind Mice" and achieved a chilling effect?
... that Norwegian footballer Kurt Heggestad stepped down from professional football to become a goat farmer?

8 January 2013

16:00, 8 January 2013 (UTC)

... that the nudibranch Flabellina verrucosa (pictured) incorporates stinging cells from its prey into its own tissues?
... that after Akari Hayami left Momoiro Clover, the girl group changed its name to Momoiro Clover Z?
... that popular YouTube videos show 5-foot-11-inch (1.80 m) Phil Pressey dunking over people much taller than him?
... that an Armenian Genocide Memorial was bombed in a Paris suburb in 1984?
... that the television-based video game Family Guy Online will be shut down in January 2013?
... that Sonrise Church in Hillsboro, Oregon, is housed in a former Toshiba Ceramics America facility?
... that chef Heston Blumenthal sought to super-size food in his Channel 4 series Heston's Fantastical Food, including making a pub out of pies?

08:05, 8 January 2013 (UTC)

... that Indonesian historian and minister of education Nugroho Notosusanto (pictured) had a film-writing credit?
... that Easwaran's Conquest of Mind gives advice on how to become a skilled juggler in controlling one's mental "likes and dislikes"?
... that Kulap are small funerary sculptures from New Ireland associated with death rituals?
... that actress Leonor Varela, who played Marta Del Sol in Dallas, watched YouTube videos to research her character's bipolar disorder?
... that Iggy's has been named the best restaurant in Asia by both the Miele Guide and The World's 50 Best Restaurants?
... that the upcoming video game Super Robot Wars UX will feature robots from 16 different media franchise titles?
... that the giant barnacle is used in Chilean cuisine?

00:20, 8 January 2013 (UTC)

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... that long-time television journalist Belva Davis (pictured) recalls being chased out of the 1964 Republican National Convention by attendees who yelled racial slurs?
... that it is not known who built the Peruvian site of Cerro Sechin?
... that O'Hara's Tower was built in the mistaken belief that it would enable the garrison at Gibraltar to spy on ships massing at Cadiz?
... that nonmagmatic is a term used in meteoritics to describe iron meteorites that were originally thought to have formed by non-igneous processes?
... that Buffy Sainte-Marie's song "Now That the Buffalo's Gone" originally mentioned that the Kinzua Dam broke the Treaty of Canandaigua?
... that a fume event occurs when cabin air in a pressurized aircraft is contaminated with potentially hazardous chemicals?
... that photographer Howell Conant considered Grace Kelly's jaw her only flaw, and hid it with a dog or baby?

7 January 2013

16:00, 7 January 2013 (UTC)

... that scientist Joseph Priestley is believed to have lived at Sweetbriar Hall (pictured), in Nantwich, Cheshire, and another scientist, Sir William Bowman, was born there?
... that Nyarroh, a female chief of the Barri region of Sierra Leone, hosted multiple negotiations between the British and Mende tribes in the 1880s and 1890s?
... that about half of the blood donations in Bangladesh are one-time donations for specific patients?
... that Henry Clay and Daniel Webster addressed crowds from the Orators Mound in Ohio?
... that Sali Aga was nicknamed Rudnik Bull because of the mass orgies that he organized for himself and his men?
... that the upcoming video game Godus is the spiritual successor to Peter Molyneux's Populous?
... that the relative distance of Maskanah, a town in northern Syria, to the Euphrates has varied over the years due to changes in the river's bed?

08:00, 7 January 2013 (UTC)

... that the Venus flytrap sea anemone (pictured) has been found in large numbers near decaying gelatinous carcases on the seabed?
... that Sariamin Ismail was the first female novelist in Indonesia?
... that in Even the Stars Look Lonesome, author Maya Angelou defends her controversial support of Clarence Thomas?
... that Samuel C. Hughes was one of the first people to move to Arizona for health reasons?
... that a bronze head once owned by the Roman emperor Augustus was stolen from the Australian National University Classics Museum in 2004?
... that Marquis Flowers was named the defensive MVP of college football's 2012 New Mexico Bowl?
... that the durian-scented food flavouring 1,1-ethanedithiol smells so bad that it is sold as a 1% solution?

00:00, 7 January 2013 (UTC)

... that Ohio's Indian Mound Reserve includes two prehistoric earthworks (one pictured) and a canyon where a battle was reputedly fought?
... that the songs Jenni Rivera chose to cover on her album Joyas Prestadas were songs she listened to while working as a cashier?
... that during the Battle of the Philippine Sea in June 1944, James D. Ramage led dive bombers from the USS Enterprise in an attack on a Japanese aircraft carrier?
... that Sir Gary Sobers's 365 not out is the highest maiden century by a batsman in Test cricket?
... that Adelina Domingues was the world's oldest person between May 2002 and August 2002?
... that 7,000 fans attended MineCon 2012, a convention celebrating the video game Minecraft?
... that the massive Chinchaga fire of 1950 in northern Canada produced a smoke cloud that was blamed on supernatural forces, aliens, and nuclear Armageddon?

6 January 2013

16:00, 6 January 2013 (UTC)

... that the Rimac Concept One (pictured) has been described as the world's first electric supercar?
... that Nikola Stoyanov, the financier who led negotiations on Bulgaria's foreign debt during the interwar period, also authored the first Bulgarian astronomical study printed abroad?
... that young cusk-eels hide between the spines of the sea urchin species Phormosoma placenta to find protection from predators?
... that Colonel Noel Wild, head of Ops (B), was one of the architects of Operation Fortitude, the deception plan to cover the 1944 Normandy landings?
... that the free-to-play video game Gravity Bone uses id Software's Quake 2 engine and incorporates music by Asian filmmaker Wong Kar-wai?
... that French theatre actress and singer Suzanne Lagier made her début at age thirteen at the Théâtre des Variétés in 1846?
... that the listed buildings in Lymm, Cheshire, include three aqueducts, a cross, a water tower, a well, an icehouse, a pigeon house, a mounting block, a milepost and the stocks?

08:00, 6 January 2013 (UTC)

... that Indian composer A. R. Rahman (pictured), known for Slumdog Millionaire, released his single "Infinite Love" to "instill faith and optimism in people" prior to the predicted doomsday on 21 December 2012?
... that No. 78 Squadron RAAF took part in the last major air battle between the Royal Australian Air Force and Japanese air units during World War II?
... that "supremely talented" Christophe Coin was conductor and cellist in recording Bach's ten cantatas with violoncello piccolo, including the chorale cantata Jesu, nun sei gepreiset, BWV 41, for New Year's Day?
... that fossils of the bryozoan Cauloramphus disjunctus dating back a million years have been found with their spines intact?
... that Half Blood Blues by Esi Edugyan was not released in Canada until August 2011, six months behind schedule and from a different publisher, yet it won that year's Scotiabank Giller Prize?
... that the United States Supreme Court decided in Dorsey v. United States that a new law on crack cocaine offenses applied retroactively?
... that Hema Malini was initially promoted as the "Dream Girl of Bollywood", and even acted in a film of the same name in 1977?
... that Extra Virginity, a 2011 book about olive oil, was criticized by The New York Times as "an unintentional master class in how to say waxy and embalming things about fresh food"?

00:00, 6 January 2013 (UTC)

... that on Vaikuntha Chaturdashi, a Hindu festival day, worshippers offer earthen lamps and cotton wicks to Shiva and Vishnu (pictured) at the Varanasi Shiva Temple?
... that 2012 College Football All-American Venric Mark holds the Northwestern records for both single-game kickoff and single-game punt return yards?
... that the top secret, World War II dual observation post of Operation Tracer was constructed in the tunnel system of Lord Airey's Shelter?
... that Robert J. Parks and Jack N. James of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory received the 1967 Stuart Ballantine Medal for their work on Mariner 4, the first spacecraft to return pictures from Mars?
... that the Zaklodzie meteorite was found near a village of the same name in Lublin Voivodeship, Poland?
... that the video game Danganronpa is to have an anime television series based on it?
... that in Marxism, withering away of the state is the process which should lead to a stateless communist utopia?
... that a line from John Lennon's "Well Well Well" has been interpreted as both a reference to cannibalism and a sexual metaphor?

5 January 2013

12:00, 5 January 2013 (UTC)

... that the Japanese racehorse Daiwa Major (pictured) won the Mile Championship by a neck two years in a row?
... that five auspicious events in the life of each Jain Tirthankara are known as Kalyanaka?
... that Green Bay Packers tackle Buford "Baby" Ray was named to the NFL's All-Decade Team for the 1940s?
... that Hero Academy was published in China in a bid to bring more western mobile games to the country?
... that Horus Sa may have been a pharaoh of Egypt?
... that Whitelaw Reid's home still stands near the village of Cedarville, Ohio?
... that skateboarder David González was named Thrasher magazine's 2012 "Skater of the Year"?
... that the hydrozoan Obelia longissima sometimes disperses by rafting?

00:00, 5 January 2013 (UTC)

... that actress Jean Aylwin (pictured) inspired a new dress style "in crepe and lace"?
... that in the 12th century, the Syrian village of Sirmaniyah was a Crusader fief?
... that Fritz Seyferth joined the University of Michigan football team as a walk-on and became the third-leading scorer in the Big Ten Conference in 1970?
... that IVB meteorites as a group have the most extreme chemical composition of all iron meteorites?
... that Sir William Francis has held the positions of vice-chairman and chief operating officer of Tarmac Plc?
... that Arab soap operas are a type of serialized fiction on television in the Arab world that are similar in style to Latin American telenovelas?
... that the Illinois Central railroad station in Bloomington, Indiana, has two rooflines?
... that the single release of John Lennon's "Meat City" has a backwards message to "check the album", on which the song has a vulgar backwards message instead?

4 January 2013

12:00, 4 January 2013 (UTC)

... that in order to save the Rollstone Boulder (pictured) from being demolished, it was blown up?
... that William Green, who served as chief engineer throughout the Great Siege of Gibraltar, was later depicted in two paintings of the siege by John Singleton Copley and George Carter?
... that Pengkhianatan G30S/PKI (Treachery of G30S/PKI) may have become the most-viewed Indonesian film of all time because of its use for pro-Suharto propaganda?
... that Jonathan Petropoulos has stated that Kajetan Mühlmann is "arguably the single most prodigious art plunderer in the history of human civilization"?
... that Vaikuntha Chaturmurti, a four-headed aspect of the Hindu god Vishnu, is mostly found in Kashmir?
... that the Rebellion Beer Company, a microbrewery in Marlow Bottom, South East England, uses the chalky water of the local Chiltern Hills, which has high levels of minerals and salts?
... that Lee-Sak "PartinG" Won took first place at the 2012 StarCraft II World Championship Series held in Shanghai?
... that there are quite a few smews?

00:00, 4 January 2013 (UTC)

... that the larvae of Biorhiza pallida (adult pictured) cause oak apples, which may also contain up to twenty other species of gall wasp larvae, most of them hyperparasites?
... that John Cunningham of Drumquhassle escaped one charge of treason, only to be hanged for another?
... that Florbetapir is an FDA-approved diagnostic tool for detecting Alzheimer's disease?
... that wine from Verduzzo, the grape behind the modern Italian wine Ramandolo, was first recorded being served at a 1409 banquet honoring Pope Gregory XII?
... that Joseph Dérigoin and his men stormed a fortification using a ladder during the French occupation of Madagascar and subsequently took 3,000 prisoners?
... that HD 179821, a bright star in the Aquila constellation, is a supernova candidate?
... that a mid-1930s attempt to generate electricity at Cobscook Bay was abandoned, but a new tidal power generation method succeeded there in 2012?
... that poet William Neville made himself a cloak of linen and buckskin which was supposed to render him invisible?

3 January 2013

12:00, 3 January 2013 (UTC)

... that had The Keep (pictured) not been built, 900 years worth of East Sussex's historical records could have been moved from the existing unsuitable building to another part of England?
... that the Piping Plover, which numbers 12–13 thousand, has its very own census?
... that in 2011, Victoire Pisa became the first Japanese-trained Thoroughbred racehorse to win "the world's richest race", the Dubai World Cup?
... that 13th Avenue, a commercially successful Orthodox Jewish shopping district in Brooklyn, New York, has 18 banks in the space of 10 blocks?
... that Mount Sage National Park, the British Virgin Islands's first national reserve, was acquired in 1964 following a grant provided by Laurance Rockefeller?
... that Cheyenne artist Bently Spang satirized anthropologists' depictions of Native Americans as a "lost culture" with a museum exhibit showcasing ordinary objects?
... that the fourth-century Byzantine mosaic discovered in Maryamin, in central Syria, is one of the few artifacts that give an indication on how the organ instrument was used in antiquity?
... that Palestinian Christian Vera Baboun, Bethlehem's first female mayor, holds a master's degree in African-American literature?

00:00, 3 January 2013 (UTC)

... that Theodore Roosevelt attacked Concealing-Coloration in the Animal Kingdom for "wild absurdities" like the book's depiction of "camouflaged" roseate spoonbills (pictured)?
... that Sir Marmaduke Constable was the great-grandfather of the poet, Henry Constable, author of Diana, one of the first English sonnet sequences?
... that the third season of Cheers has a new psychiatrist, a pregnant waitress, a romantic childless triangle, and a dead coach?
... that a part of Antarctica nearly double the area of the United Kingdom was named Queen Elizabeth Land to commemorate Queen Elizabeth II's Diamond Jubilee year?
... that Christina Aguilera wore a "cinched in corset" designed by The Blonds for her performance of "Let There Be Love" at the 2012 American Music Awards?
... that the Tiger of Mysore did not have his meal until he heard the bell of the Srirangapatna Ranganatha temple, one of the Pancharanga Kshetrams?
... that in the video game Long Live The Queen, players must keep a princess alive until she turns 15 and can be crowned?
... that in 1999, the racehorse El Condor Pasa became the Japanese Horse of the Year without running in any races held in Japan?

2 January 2013

12:00, 2 January 2013 (UTC)

... that in Hindu mythology Lakshmi ordered her consort's chariot (pictured) damaged when he left her behind for his annual vacation to Gundicha Temple?
... that French disc jockey David Guetta co-wrote and co-produced Rihanna's song "Right Now"?
... that Lady Henry Somerset scandalised 1870s society by revealing her husband's homosexuality, but was later voted the best choice to be the United Kingdom's first female prime minister?
... that the first Legislative Assembly of Madras State was constituted in May 1952?
... that Hans Severus Ziegler proposed the name "Hitler-Jugend" (Hitler Youth) for the Nazi youth movement?
... that the village of Cold Spring, New York, rejected a thousand-dollar offer for the Richard Upjohn-designed The Grove as "insultingly low" despite restoration estimates a thousand times that?
... that Frederick Morrell Zeder became chief engineer of Studebaker Automobile Company at the age of 28?
... that the South Korean Cyber Terror Response Center raided Korean Google offices over concerns about Google Street View?

00:00, 2 January 2013 (UTC)

... that the traditional Htou-tjyen playing cards (pictured) of Korea were about half an inch (a bit over 1 cm) wide?
... that record producer Tyshane produced his first song at age 10?
... that the upcoming video game Monster Monpiece includes artwork of re-imagined legendary creatures from more than 50 artists?
... that the New Year's Day carol "Levy-Dew" was a part of a Welsh water-blessing ritual?
... that Vannevar Bush's use of the torque amplifier solved a problem with the ball-and-disk integrator that Lord Kelvin found when he first thought of the differential analyser over 40 years earlier?
... that an internet video by conservative blogger Bill Whittle criticizing the Occupy Wall Street movement has been viewed more than 2.4 million times on YouTube since October 2011?
... that Armenian King Varazdat was one of the last Ancient Olympic champions in boxing?
... that One Direction band member Louis Tomlinson thinks that their video for their new song "Kiss You" is "pure stupidity"?

1 January 2013

12:00, 1 January 2013 (UTC)

... that the Galapagos Penguin (pictured) is outnumbered well over ten thousand to one by Macaroni Penguins?
... that some Hindus believe that the great ancestors of the world roam the universe as four naked five-year-old children?
... that the Spanish nobleman and soldier Luis Bravo de Acuña played a key role in improving the defences of Gibraltar in the 17th century?
... that despite the destruction of its forest habitat, the Angel's Chameleon has adapted to life near roads and villages?
... that "Pan-Arab heartthrob" Bashar al-Shatti from Star Academy writes religious music as well as television and cartoon scores?
... that voting in Marjeyoun-Hasbaya in the 1968 Lebanese general election was marred by heavy rains?
... that Jalsha Movies is a 24-hour Bengali movie channel of STAR India that started on 16 December 2012?
... that before it was moved to the opera house, the post office in Jamestown, Ohio, sometimes changed locations once per week?

00:00, 1 January 2013 (UTC)

... that the first specimens of benstonite (mineral pictured) were collected on New Year's Eve, 1954?
... that the Anza seismic gap on the San Jacinto Fault Zone has potential for a magnitude 6.5 earthquake?
... that before the success of his debut LP, 2, Canadian musician Mac DeMarco participated in medical experiments for money?
... that Ernst Hechler, a bomber pilot during World War II, was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross as a U-boat commander?
... that the Samuel N. Patterson House survived the destruction of most of its neighborhood in the 1974 Xenia tornado?
... that French explorer and adventurer René de Segonzac was accused of the murder of a fellow army officer?
... that the sermon regarded as the "first set-piece confrontation of the English Reformation" was preached on Christmas Eve 1525 at St Edward King and Martyr on St Edward's Passage, Cambridge?
... that Sandra Eisert was the first White House picture editor, and later designed the cover photo for the 1988 Monsters of Rock Tour?